The Republican journal., 1887-06-23

Kate Sanborn. the we-known writer and
newspaper correspondent. is il niece Of Daniel
Webster.
Miss l'oddington, an American Girl, has GAIN
ed the Monchelcs prize at Lcill>ic. The test
piece WAS the composers & minor concerto.
Mrs. Susan J.. Mills. with her late husband.
founded Mills College. Oakland. Cal. She is
now the principal. and has added $4,000 to its
endowment.
Or. Mary +. Bates. regarded as one of the
best surgeons in Chicago, WAS the first woman
to graduate from medical college in tha city.
She has Il large practice.
Miss Elizabeth Curtis George William Cur
lis daughter. has formed " orkn" " omen's
Guild on Staten Island. with reading-room>. IL
brary. and pleasant evening recreation>.
The women of New York have been granted
more patent. than their sisters in any other
state. The women of Mas >achI>ptts. Ohio. IN
di;nna and Wisconsin rank next in order
Mrs. Helen Campbell since her '.Pri>onerS
of Poverty called attention to the Suering> of
poor sewing women. has received hundreds OF
| applications from people wlo want seamstre>s-
The town council, Of twenty Scotch towns.
have this year pcttioned parliament to grant
suffrage to women. Anon" them are Edn-
bur@h. Dunfern'ine. DunfricS, Dunbar, Lin
lith@ow and Stirling.
Mrs. Annie Bovd. of Grand RAPIDS. Mch
has recovered $4,000 damages from a rlln,>ell-
er. Christopher Post who sold her husband liq-
uor, under the influence of which he killed a
man and was sentenced to prison for life.
An old lady who lately died in Vienna. left
all her propertv.Naiucd at thirty thousand flor
in>. to her nincteen-year-old niece, on condi-
ton that the latter should never Wear clothes
,,f ant
The niece accepted the conditions.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Short. one of the first
graduating class of the Kingston Women's
Medical college. was chosen as lecturer upon
medical Jurisprudence and sanitary science in
the Woman'> Medical College of Il kingston Cam
ada. at the last meeting of the Board of Trlls-
tees.
The idea of Woman Suffrage has crossed the
state line frcm Kansas, and invaded Missouri.
At the Ministers Alliance. held in Kansas CITY,
Thursday June >, the question was up for con
>llerailon and majority Of The ministers pres
ent faNore! the extension of suffrage to wo-
men.
a bill granting municipal suffrage to single
women and widows in Copenhagen passed the
| Danish Fokething equivalent TO our House of
| Representatives, by vote of tifty-one to SIN
teen. but the committee of the Upper House
| has reported adversely. four to one. The bill
WIS Stlljilos ltu Dt Il ptllllOn from tite DANISH
| Wonen's Society. signed by 1853 women Of
Copenhagen, including jS4 taxpayers.
Clara Louise Kellogg saw that an American
girl need not study abroad to become Il profess
iona singer. but can learn in this country, if
| she VIII work hard. give up most of the pleas
lres young people prize. study dramatic action
As well as singing. and give her whole time TO
preparation. Her general health must be
watched over as carefully as her voice. She
must cal nouri>hing food. take plenty of eXer-
else. and get nine hours sleep.
| y woman who. six Years ago. knew nothing
| of business. now makes the only blankets in
| the country that can compete with those of the
! Fam lis Mission mills, in California. She has Il
small mill run by water power up in Vermont
| and She experimental in her own Kitchen mix
| ing the dyes until She cot the exact shades.
Her blankets now can hardly be distinguished
/ from the Mission, mills. and her little mill is
kept running day and night 10 fill heavy or
| der>.
| y humorous incident is told of the worl, of
women on the New FORK school board. \ ian
i"r, Of one of the schools came last week with
a complaint to the principal. lie said he had
| been Janitor of that building for nineteen
years. and no one had ever asked to see the
basement until one of the women of the school
board came. recently. and said she wanted to
make an examination. And that basement
wasn't in a fit condition for any one to >ee." he
added plaintively.
Senator ingalls,. in his lecture on woman >un-
rage at Abilene, took the ground that 10 one
ought to vote who can not fight. of course
tins rule would diSfranch>c old or inrm men,
however intelligent. 1t would i>franchiSe all
the disabled veterans of the war who can no
longer handle a bayonet. As long as the old.
the sickly, the halt, the lame and the blind
among men are permitted to vote. some better
reason must be found for excluding women
than the fact that they (an NOT tiyht